An uncomfortable comparisonCOMPARISONS with dim chapters in Jewish history tend to elicit the knee-jerk Israeli response of asur le’hashvot,the Hebrew for “you can’t compare”. But a government plan to deport more than 34000 African migrants to Rwanda is provoking more hand-wringing than usual, not least because Israel itself was created by refugees and survivors of the Holocaust.
The government has proposed a plan to offer financial incentives including the payment of $3500 to African migrants who agree to leave Israel “voluntarily” and proceed to Rwanda or Uganda. It said that those who do not agree to leave may be expelled by force or imprisoned.
In response activists in Israel are promising to veil Africans threatened with expulsion in their homes. They acquire named their campaign to provide shelter the “Anne Frank domestic Sanctuary”, or after the Dutch-Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam....
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Source: economist.com